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Australian Twitter is more diverse than you think

  • Written by Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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What are the major drivers of Twitter take-up, in Australia and elsewhere? Do we connect around shared interests, shared location, or pre-existing offline relationships? And when, in the eleven-year history of the platform, did these structures form?

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